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MARGAO
It’s official. Aam Aadmi Party State convenor Elvis Gomes is the candidate of the party for the South Goa Lok Sabha in the 2019 election.
The name of Elvis Gomes was unanimously approved by the South Goa District Committee.
Briefing the media, AAP district Secretary Roque Mascarenhas said that though there were other probables, the district committee after much deliberations was unanimous in choosing Gomes as the party candidate for the South Goa seat.
“I have the pleasure to declare that Elvis Gomes will be the common man’s VIP. For AAP, it means ‘Voice in Parliament’ and nothing more,” Roque said, while making an appeal to all other parties to support Gomes so that Goa’s common man is represented and heard loud and clear.
Further making an appeal to the voters this time go for alternative brand of politics, he said the name of Gomes will go before the State level committee to comply with formalities where it will be officially declared along with that of the North Goa candidate.
It was informed that the north district committee could not come to a consensus and will again meet later next week to finalise the
candidate.
Elaborating further, Roque said that the district committee analysed the performance of past MP’s and found that all were muted and fell far short of people’s expectations when it came to fighting for causes of Goa.
“This was the main reason for which Goa was seeing unrest with issues such as coal import, river nationalisation, mining closure and most importantly large scale sale of land to crony capitalists from outside,” he said, adding that Gomes was best suited to confront ‘evil’ forces which had converged into Goa with the help of various politicians who had placed their personal interest above that of the State.
To a question as to what would be party’s line of action if assembly goes into dissolution, Roque said that the party has already worked out a plan for such an eventuality and will reveal it at the appropriate time. “Right now only Lok Sabha elections are certain and hence we are certain with Elvis Gomes as our choice and hope that he will be Goa’s choice too,” concluded Roque.
Others present were South District convenor Rodney Almeida, Treasurer Brahmanand Naik and Sidharth Karapurkar.
